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Synthetic division is another, easier, way of carrying out division of polynomials. Look at how it would work for the example above before moving on to an explanation of the process.

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The previous method works perfectly well but only finds the remainder. To find the quotient as well, use synthetic division as follows. Now you need to factorise the second bracket. There's no point ...